ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,634, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to UCL VENTURES Ltd. (London).

"Neural-inspired audio signal processor" was invented by Ifat Yasin (London) and Vit Drga (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An audio-signal processor (100) for filtering an audio signal-of-interest from an input audio signal (111) comprising a mixture of the signal-of-interest and background noise,the processor (100) comprising a frontend unit (120), the frontend unit (120) comprising a filterbank (121) comprised of an array of bandpass filters, a sound level estimator (123), and a memory (122) with one or more input-output, I/O, functions stored on said memory ...